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...year from his jobs as coach, athletic director, weekly TV football analyst and after-dinner speaker. Two years ago, he turned down an enticing $100,000 offer to coach the Los Angeles Rams. "I am one who believes that college football is a helluva challenge," he says, "perhaps even tougher than the pros." Friends believe that there was another reason for turning down the pro bid: he did not want to miss the opportunity of coaching his son, John K. McKay, a sophomore who is currently U.S.C.'s top pass receiver. Recruiting young John was "easier than usual...
...Three cross country championship game goes up for grabs today, and barring a bus hijacking between Princeton, N.J. and New Haven, Harvard will be in for one of its tougher meets of the season...
...Yale course is short, relatively flat and fast. McCurdy would be happier with a longer and tougher course, but is quick to point out that "It really shouldn't make any significant difference...
However, until we have some ideas of just what the Cornell times represent in ability -- and I guess we won't know this until Saturday -- perhaps Cornell will be tougher. The meets so far show more depth than Penn demonstrated against us. They have packed them in tightly. Of course, the best way to handle a situation like this is to let them group as lightly as they want -- behind...
...football game. Last month three bovver birds were sentenced to up to two years each in reform school for pulling a 25-year-old schoolteacher to the ground at a west London bus stop and kicking her until her face was covered with blood. "The girls are even tougher than the boys," said one judge at Old Bailey last week. "It was once assumed that if a man and a woman committed a crime, the woman was under the domination of the man. I think that's now rubbish from what I've seen...